War Photographer The theme that I am about to explore is death. Death is a scary event that will happen to everyone. Every moment of the day someone dies‚ and unfortunately innocent people are getting killed every day from these vicious wars going on in the world. No one seems to think about others and how they feel. Guns‚ bombs‚ gas attacks‚ they all kill and take lives of parents‚ children or even whole villages. In the poem “War Photographer” death is the main theme. It talks about two sides
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War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows‚ as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel‚ to fields which don’t explode beneath
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and the poem War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy the theme of death is explored and received both warmly and sadly which creates a wonderful contrast between the positive and negative prospect of it. The poems are touching as they both release a feeling of sorrowful sensation suggesting their subject but give us different viewpoints which we can relate to. This essay is going to discus primary the distinction between the two poems that hold on the same matter. The poem War Photographer discusses
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True and advanced works of Chinua Achebe‚ Refugee Mother and Child is a beautiful poem. Chinua Achebe was born in the 1930s in Ogidi‚ Nigeria. Chinua wrote this poem after getting inspired by the citizens of the countries which were going through war. He illustrates the difficulties and suffering they had to go through. The poem is organized into two stanzas each with different lengths. The lines are more or less the same size. The lines are explained clearly and are easy to understand with simple
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2) What are your feelings about the photographer and his work as you read the poem? Show how the words of the poem have created these feelings in you. After reading Carol Ann Duffy’s poem the “War Photographer”‚ I feel pitiful for the war photographer‚ knowing that he cannot that he would not be able to lead a normal life once the memories from the battlefield haunts him. I also feel that we as society are glad to keep a distance from the harsh realities of war while being just superficially sympathetic
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Response to War Photographer War Photographer is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy‚ published in a book called Standing Female Nude in 1985. The purpose is to shock people out of their complacency of war. Duffy has a view the war is filled with pain and that people in peaceful society can’t really understand the full impact of war. The audience is whoever is interested in poetry. These days the audience for poetry is limited. Duffy is friends with two noted war photographers‚ and they inspired her to write
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The poem “Refugee Blues” represents the refugees of the Holocaust. This event is similar to the current day event of the Syrian civil war. This event also involves refugees fleeing due to the toll the wars are paying on their life’s. Both of these events would be traumatizing for whoever witnessed and survived them. It would be hard and disturbing to have to reflect on an event so tragic your whole life. The Holocaust last from 19331945. The Syrian war began on March 13‚2011 and is still being fought
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“War Photographer” A poem which encourages the reader to feel sympathy is “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy. The persona you are encouraged to feel sympathy towards is the war photographer. The poem features a war photographer who tries to deliver the message that suffering is wrong and should be stopped but is made to realise that the people “do not care” and his job is futile. The poet makes use of word choice‚ imagery and structure to show that the war photographer feels isolated and
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Poetry From Other Cultures “War Photograph” and “War Photographer” In the poem War Photograph‚ Kate Daniels immediately expects us to know which photograph she is talking about as soon as she gets past the first verse (which describes the photo in question) which explains why it is so short. The first stanza is describing what we see‚ immediately in front of us from this photo. After this‚ she explains in the second stanza about the rest of the war; what we can’t see from the photo. After
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do the writers present their feelings on war? In the poems ‘war photographer’ and ‘war photograph’ the audience are presented with two poems which express the feelings of the authors towards war. I will be comparing these two poems to find the differences between the narrators feelings. Kate Daniels poem is told through the voice of an American citizen looking in a magazine at a war photograph. Whereas‚ Carol Ann-Duffy’s poem is about a war photographer developing the photos‚ that he took previously
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